At least now The GOP has no excuse to not pass and send legislation to the President

At least now The GOP has no excuse to not pass and send legislation to the President. Just think Obama can really drive people like Ted Cruise crazy
now by signing stuff they send up. Now all the GOP will have to admit they voted for stuff Obama signed. LOL. They have no excuses now why they cannot
pass legislation.

If he is smart he will sign some stuff just to make political points. For instance he should sign the Pipe line thing. It is stupid not to. Will bring
gas prices down even further which could stimulate the US economy.
The pipeline is actually more environmentally safe than moving the stuff by truck and rail. Not like you can halt its use.

He could also ask Congress to pass additional funding to expedite NASA's various replacements for the Shuttle and beyond to get us off Russian
Hardware. With current Russian relations the GOP could not political block such a measure.

Ask congress for more funding for DOD to expedite Nuclear deterrent weapon systems that are rusting. Expedite defensive systems development. There is
an entire slurry of positive things Obama could put forward and force GOP to get behind it.

originally posted by: Xeven
At least now The GOP has no excuse to not pass and send legislation to the President. Just think Obama can really drive people like Ted Cruise crazy
now by signing stuff they send up. Now all the GOP will have to admit they voted for stuff Obama signed. LOL. They have no excuses now why they cannot
pass legislation.

Nah, they can just spend the next 2 years trying to dissolve all the legislation that Obama signed.

Yea I hear you. Pass some stuff looks like he is working with others......just don't get near that health care bill.

He wont sign anything to repeal AFA for sure but the AFA needs and will need modification as time passes. Just like most all large scale legislation
like Social Security. Social Security was passed a long time ago and we still modify it year to year. Same will happen to the AFA. America needed a
health care system, this one is not perfect and can be molded into a good system for Americans that will include GOP and Dem ideas. If the sole reason
to repeal it is because Obama was the President who signed it then you got some other issues.

If you think health care should be free for all with no regulation then someone's will to repeal it may be a bit more justified. Ted Cruise could act
to modify it, to improve it, to make it more conservative, but he don't, he wants it gone because he does not want Obama getting any credit.

i bet he won't sign a tougher immigration bill or repeal of obumacare.
he has already threatened to write EO's and basically brushed off McConnell who warned against by passing congress.

Yet he said Obama’s plans to take executive action on immigration, if Congress doesn’t act, would amount to “waving a red flag in front of a
bull”

He then brushed aside McConnell’s warning on an immigration order, repeating a promise to take action by the end of the year to halt deportations
for some undocumented immigrants if Congress doesn’t move on rewriting the law. “What I’m not going to do is just wait,” he said.

i don't see the man working with them, he is going to be a bitter president from now on and is going to veto out of pure spite. i expect him to have
more veto's overridden than Reagan did, he had nine.

Oh wow no. I think the whole thing should be junked because its junk. The person that wrote it was junk. 2000+ pages of junk. The president doesn't
even know all that's in the bill. Anything of that magnitude, 2000+ pages, that wasn't even read before its passage is junk. Every signature on the
bill is junk and every yes vote it received is junk.

You can tell from his speech about "working" with the republicans that he is extremely bitter that his "authority" was taken away from him, he was
smug and dismissive. He choked on his word when he said that he was going to do everything possible to benefit the American people, he played it off
that he was coughing, but it is my opinion that he was choking on the words he was saying, because he knew he has no intention of doing things that
benefit the American people.

The way I see it, now the president has to grounds to feed the low-information voter the line that the republicans are the do-nothing congress. He
will either have to sign or veto everything passed, and now Reid isn't there to shield him from that responsibility.

Honestly, I don't think he has what it takes to constantly veto things based on his ideology, because it will peg him as even farther left than most
of us already know he is, and he can't make that political mistake because he is the main reason there was such a backlash against Dems this election
(well, at least a big part of it). He would be signing the death warrant for the next possible Dem presidential candidate--Americans are already tired
of his and Reid's crap. If he doubles down on that, he's going to cause more problems for the country AND for his party.

I guarantee this discussion is already taking place with him. I honestly feel that he's just a mouthpiece for the party instead of an individual who
is president, and I'm quite certain that whatever they tell him to do, he'll do it, and I don't think that they're in the mood for more of what
just happened during this election.

1. Employer mandate. Most companies will have to provide and pay for expensive government-determined health insurance for their employees or
face federal fines.

2. Anti-conscience mandate. Religious organizations will be required to provide free sterilization, contraceptives, and abortion-inducing drugs to
their employees, even if it violates their religious beliefs.

3. New and higher taxes.The law contains at least 20 new taxes totaling $500 billion that will hit medical innovators, health insurance, and even the
sale of your home.

4. The Independent Payment Advisory Board. IPAB will still stand, with its rationing power over Medicare.

5. State exchanges. States will be compelled to set up vast new bureaucracies to check into our finances and families so they can hand out generous
taxpayer subsidies for health insurance to families earning up to $90,000 a year.

7. Higher health-care costs. The Kaiser Family Foundation says the average price of a family policy has risen by $2,200 during the Obama
administration. The president promised premiums would be $2,500 lower by this year. Hospitals, doctors, businesses, and consumers all expect their
taxes and health costs to rise under Obamacare.

8. Government control over doctor decisions.Value-based payments, quality reporting requirements, and government comparative-effectiveness boards will
dictate how doctors practice medicine. Nearly half of all physicians are seriously considering leaving practice, leading to a severe doctor
shortage.

9. Huge deficits. The CBO has raised its cost estimate for the law to $1.76 trillion over ten years, but that is only the opening bid as more and more
people lose their job-based coverage and flood into taxpayer-subsidized insurance. At this rate, the cost will be $2 trillion, not the less than $1
trillion the president promised.

10. 159 new boards, agencies, and programs: The Obama administration will work quickly to set up as many of the law’s new bureaucracies as fast as
it can so they can take root before the election.

The November elections are the last hope — we must elect a Congress and a president committed to repealing Obamacare. They, and all of us, will need
to be armed with the facts to explain to the American people exactly what is in this monstrous law.

You can tell from his speech about "working" with the republicans that he is extremely bitter that his "authority" was taken away from him, he was
smug and dismissive. He choked on his word when he said that he was going to do everything possible to benefit the American people, he played it off
that he was coughing, but it is my opinion that he was choking on the words he was saying, because he knew he has no intention of doing things that
benefit the American people.

Obama has not had any authority taken away from him. He can do everything now he could do before. The only difference today is that the GOP can move
bills up to his desk where he has to sign them or veto them.

He has not lost any authority. I actually am happy Harry Reid is gone. He is as bad or worse than Boehner.

You forget: The president is a true believer. He's a radical leftist and as zealous and anyone with religious convictions.

We can all hope he will sign some things to make his point, but that wasn't what he signaled in his speech. I'm afraid he won't do a Clinton.

As for the Republicans, they'll pass stuff I'm sure, but don't forget that they don't have a filibuster proof majority. The Dems can always
filibuster if they're serious.

We shall know soon enough if what you have said is true. I can only hope he is not as shallow as the previous congress was. I really don't know what
to expect from him now. He has been a very poor leader thus far.

Washington (CNN) -- The "nuclear option" would be the changing of Senate rules to enable judicial and executive nominees to be confirmed with just
51 votes instead of 60. Apparently you need 60 votes to do just about anything in the Senate but change the rules. That only takes 51 votes.
Nuclear? That sounds harsh for something as simple as a rule change. Senators view themselves as being part of the "world's greatest deliberative
body." It's a debatable point, but in order to protect the minority party and make sure nobody does anything without a full debate, Senate rules
require that 60 of 100 senators agree to votes to move toward confirming a nominee or passing legislation. In the fancy language they speak on Capitol
Hill, moving toward a vote is called "invoking cloture."

Conservatives are pressuring Senate Republicans to keep in place the controversial “nuclear option” rules that Democrats approved last year to
limit filibusters of President Obama’s nominees. A group of 26 conservative academics, advocates and leaders wrote in a letter that they see
“very little upside” to restoring the old rules, which had allowed the minority party to require 60 votes to confirm nominees. They say the rules
would help Republicans put “committed constitutionalists” on the bench if the White House changes hands in 2016.

so thanks to rule changes instituted a while ago filibuster is far less threatening in the senate as the republicans have more then 51 seats and thus
appear to be able to bypass most attempts at a filibuster

A filibuster can be stopped when the Senate invokes cloture. This can be an arduous task in and of itself. To invoke cloture, a Senator needs to
do the following: Wait two days after a filibuster begins. Obtain sixteen signatures on a motion to invoke cloture. Wait another two days
before the Senate can vote on cloture. Make sure that three-fifths of the Senate (sixty Senators) vote to end debate. Endure and additional
thirty hours of debate before the final roll call vote.

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